Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
Chris Collins (SONS OF ANARCHY) has sold ANONYMOUS, a drama about “an ex-special ops soldier who discovers a global coverup that forces him to go off the grid to help those who cannot help themselves,” to TNT. (Yeppers, we’ve heard this all before, but still…remember when PERSON OF INTEREST was just two guys doing good, before they expanded it to the 8,051 person team it now is? Wouldn’t it be cool if that’s what ANONYMOUS turned out to be?)
Nina Fiore & John Herrera (ALPHAS) are writing the pilot for PLAYERS, a drama about Bad Hollywood back in the 1930s, for The CW. (Nothing really wrong about any of this except…The CW? This mean we’ll be seeing beautiful teenage Hollywood back in the days when everyone running a studio was a middle-aged white man who looked even older than that?)
Chris Collins is back, this time with MOST WANTED, a Starz series tracing the rise and fall of a ’70s bank robber. (Cuz BONNIE AND CLYDE are already taken, we guess, and setting a show only 30 years ago instead of 80 should be cheaper to shoot. Less time travel involved, after all.)
Ian Goldberg (ONCE UPON A TIME) & Jessica Borsiczky have sold GRAND AVENUE, a sort of UPSTAIRS/DOWNSTAIRS drama set in 1910 L.A. to Amazon Studios. (We admit to being just a tad dubious about anything Amazon is doing cuz…production values? But we’d love to see something set in this particular way-back work, if for no other reason than we’ve never seen that time period on TV before that we can remember.)
John Ridley (12 YEARS A SLAVE) is writing the pilot for AMERICAN CRIME, an ABC drama that examines race relations as they pertain to a sensational murder. (If it’s presented with even one-eighth the sincerity and style of 12 YEARS A SLAVE we’re in. Assuming, that is, that Oprah isn’t involved. Cuz…Oprah?)
Kelly Oxford (rejoice, newbies, becuz Kelly’s background is nothing more nor less than a popular Twitter feed) is writing a Fox comedy pilot set in a senior center. (We’re intrigued by this one simply cuz it breaks the most basic TV development rule: “Thou shalt never create a TV series about old people lest ye turn off the young audience that buys our sacred sponsors’ products.” And if conventional wisdom is correct, that seems like a really risky rule to break.)
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
Jay Scherick & David Ronn (THE SMURFS) are developing a reboot of the old REMINGTON STEELE private eye series for NBC, where it’ll be a half-hour comedy. (We refuse to joke about this because, let’s face it, the punchlines come way too easy.)
Abby Kohn & Marc Silverstein (THE VOW) are developing an ABC comedy series about a group of friends who leave the big city to live in the Mississippi delta. (Cuz the only old sitcom that’s never been rebooted/stolen/you name it is GREEN ACRES, so its time definitely is now.)
Ian Goldberg (ONCE UPON A TIME) is writing the pilot for COLONY, a CW drama that transfers the Roanoke Colony mystery to, um, Mars. (Personally, we’d rather see Ray Bradbury writing this – dead or alive.)
Mark Steven Johnson (GHOST RIDER) is writing a CBS drama pilot called GENERATION NEXT about some kind of deadly disease stuff happening in the future. (Personally, we’d rather see Ray Bradbury or his corpse do this one too.)
Shane Kosakowski & Franklin Hardy (RUNNING WILDE) are writing a to-be-named pilot now referred to as THE BERT KREISCHER PROJECT for a series about a 40 year old party animal who decides it’s time to grow up. (Starring – hmm – Bert Kreischer, who evidently is a 40 year old party animal who also has decided it’s time to grow up.)
Andy Mogel & Jarrad Paul (ALLEN GREGORY) are writing the pilot for a Fox comedy called ALL BUSINESS which seems to be a comedy about a guy who buys a woman’s business because he wants to get close to her. (Cuz rich stalkers are the talk of the town/salt of the earth now, whereas not-so-rich ones, well…
